New RNC site: Obama v. Constitution, including ominous music!

By GottaLaff



You simply must link over to this ridiculous site just to hear the oooommminnous music:

If you run your mouse over the amendment in question it indicates an Obama judicial nominee and a decision that allegedly supports the claim [...]

“Please help the Republican Party stop President Obama’s judicial nominees from rewriting the Constitution. Donate today!” the site says, calling for contributions of up to $1,000.

And that's what it's really all about: Donations.

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Defacing the U.S. Constitution should be a real winner for them. Even better than the fake census forms!

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Gravely Old Pathetic party.

Sarah Palin's Alaska Supreme Court appointment causing supporter rift

By GottaLaff

Grabby McEarmarks has been going through political puberty. Things were going relatively smoothly there for awhile, back in her pre-pubescent days; she even praised Senator Obama's energy program.

And then... ::ominous music sting:: she became the nominee for Vice President. That's when those pesky "changes" came over her. She got louder, shriller, and developed some bizarro Fargo accent. Inciting hate speech became a daily occurrence. And the worst happened: She lost.

Off she went, $150,000 wardrobe and all, back to Alaska where she would be welcomed with open arms. Or would she? Trouble in Sarahdise:

Palin’s appointment of Morgan Christen to the Alaska Supreme Court is causing a huge rift among supporters. Christen, one of the two candidates Palin had to choose from, has what some consider to be a checkered past. She sat on the board of…..(scary organ chord)….Planned Parenthood. You know, the organization that all the unwed teen mothers in Alaska didn’t visit for contraception education or family planning advice.

Here’s the official statement from TS:

Like many pro-life Americans across the country, we were disappointed to learn that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin chose a former Planned Parenthood board member to serve on the Alaska State Supreme Court. We understand Alaska’s unique selection process limited her choices, and that in this case, she was limited to two bad choices.

We know that Governor Palin is pro-life. In addition to her personal pro-life witness, she counts pro-life suffragette Susan B. Anthony among her heroes. That said, we assume this was a very difficult decision for her, but we wish she would have made a different one.

This choice of Morgan Christen to serve on Alaska’s Supreme Court may very well create a tough situation for Palin down the road. The long-term difficulty that she may be faced with is a Supreme Court decision that undercuts her own support for Alaska’s parental notice measure. That result would be a very disappointing outcome for Alaska parents.

Well, the two camps that Palin appeals to most, the evangelical right-to-life group, and the gun lovin’ neo-con naughty librarian fan club, are having a little spat. It’s kind of like a perfect little microcosm of the Republican party as a whole. The only “base” the party seems to have left are the neo-conservatives, and the Christian evangelicals. The moderate cloth-coat sensible Republicans of yore, are now either wandering the desert looking at the sky, or have realized that the Democratic party actually has some pretty good ideas.

Political puberty is not an easy road to hoe. In fact, poor Grabby McEarmarks may realize she's on the wrong road all together... that infamous road to nowhere.

Here comes da judge(s)

By GottaLaff

President-elect Obama has a judge-a-palooza of a future:

President-elect Obama will enter office with an immediate opportunity to begin shaping the federal courts by filling four dozen openings on trial and appeals courts.

My blood pressure is just returning to normal. Thank you, election 2008.

Federal judges, with lifetime appointments, can be a president's most enduring legacy. [...]

Public attention typically is focused on the Supreme Court, where five justices are older than 70. Speculation about a possible opening centers on Justice John Paul Stevens, 88, but any retirement is unlikely before the summer, if then.

By contrast, 14 seats are open on appeals courts or will be by the end of January. [...]

These are the courts that as a practical matter have the final say on everyday issues that affect millions of people because the Supreme Court accepts fewer than 2 percent of the cases appealed to the justices.

"Most of the action is in the lower courts, from labor and employment law to civil rights to punitive damages to affirmative action and how the death penalty is administered," said Ilya Shapiro, senior fellow in constitutional studies at the libertarian Cato Institute in Washington. [...]

Shapiro estimates that within four years, Obama can name enough judges to give Democrats majorities on nine of the 13 appeals courts. [...]

Judges appointed by Obama can be expected to side more often with "workers, consumers, homeowners, women, and people of color who were discriminated against," Aron said.

With Democrats holding a solid majority in the Senate Obama is not likely to have trouble getting his appointees confirmed. [...]

Even when Clinton had a Senate majority in his first two years as president, he was slow to nominate judges. The incoming Obama administration is unlikely to repeat that mistake, in part because of the experience of officials, beginning with Vice President-elect Joe Biden, who has served 32 years on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

It will take years to begin to compensate for the damage BushCo has done. I can't begin to imagine what this country would have been like under a ::shudder:: McCain/Palin administration.

We can breathe again.